Andy Warhol was born in Pittsburg in 1928. Starting in the late 1950s and through the 1960s, Andy Warhol was the first art promoter of the photobooth. He demonstrated his belief that the apparatuses of popular culture are a legitimate means to produce art. With the photobooth, Warhol could become the machine-artist he wished to be. While the booth allowed the non-intervention of the artist, the portraits he created became documents of Warhol’s mythology. Like a virtual painting, Warhol mechanically painted with more or less used photobooths, offering him a depth of black-and-white tones determined by the freshness of the chemicals. He then understood the photobooth as a cheap and effective camera he could use for graphic design.

From 1982 to 1987, Andy Warhol made 503 works composed of black-and-white photographic prints stitched together with thread. These works are indebted to his earlier repetitive silkscreen paintings and are also the result of lifelong photographic exploration and a prolific decade. The process of image repetition opposes the traditional unique and original work of art. Any chosen pattern can then become a sensational image. With the photobooth, silkscreen and act of sewing, the repetitive blend of patterns becomes a signature Warhol publicizes.